Edit: typo

  • Raine_Wolf@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Meanwhile, giving myself root access to my own computer is a bitch. I need to just switch to Linux

  • >spyjoshx_@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    I understand that antivirus software is necessary on Windows, but I'll never understand the existence of Windows Defender. If Microsoft knows enough to prevent a virus that exploits something in windows, why are they putting their effort into an antivirus program, and not fixing ththe problem in Windows? If someone has a good explanation for this, I'd love to hear it.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          All OSes have vulnerabilities, and the thing is MS Defender is a working solution that prevents many attacks. Microsoft also has to provide some nominal support to enterprise apps that are 30 years old, because that's a significant amount of what keeps them in business. Patching actual root causes would often mean changing the way things work at a fundamental level in the OS, and would break apps for a lot of their users. This could create a big problem for a lot of people.

        • brainw0rms [they/them]
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          7 months ago

          Don't worry about it too much, this meme is just garbage and basically everything it asserts is wrong or inaccurate. The other person who replied to you was just being a condescending smuglord because you asked reasonable questions instead of participating in the "Windows Bad" circlejerk.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Precisely because Windows has been the main target for hackers and malware, for being by far the most used OS, it has caused Windows today to be the best protected OS, with a Defender that is currently one of the best AVs on the market and a effective Sandbox system that prevents any changes without user intervention in the root system. Hopefully in terms of privacy it will be just as good, at least by default it is not like that.